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Using the color stabilizer effect

Using the color stabilizer effect - After Effects Tutorial

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Using the color stabilizer effect

- Sometimes with primary adjustments, you might find yourself in a situation where the shot changes over time. Now there are lots of different auto effects that are quite useful with temporal smoothing, but sometimes the changes can be dramatic. Maybe someone was flipping through the exposure settings on the camera, adjusting things like shutter speed, or maybe they were quickly making adjustments on the lens itself, and you see some spikes. Well, fortunately, the Color Stabilizer is quite useful and can maintain consistency throughout the shot. If we look at the shot here and I press Play, you'll see some options here that we were adjusting on the lens that affected exposure. Well, that change can be neutralized or stabilized. Let's add the adjustment layer, and I'll type in the word stabilize. Now normally, you'll pick a stabilizer for movement, but besides the Warp Stabilizer, there's a Color Stabilizer. What this needs…

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